The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-04-01
Letter From Missouri.

Gil countian who is at present rusti-
eating in western Missouri.
The letter was written about the
last of December but got hung in
the writer's over coat pocket which
will account for the ante date appsr-
emily. A large number of our read
ers will recognize the writer.
Wheatland, Dec-1S86.
The MIDLAND often speaks my mind on
the temperance and farming que stions. 1t
is very plain to me that it helpe our edi-
tor wonderfully to haye served an appren-
ticeship on the farm at least if he attempts
to publish farm page. keeps him from
making fool of himself. If you succeed
in getting the farmers of Cecil to join your
club you will have to give them more than
a general invitation. l would suggest that
you outline short programme pertaining
to the different branches of farming as
practiced in Cecil, then from your personal
ACQUAINTANCE with the successful gr,ngers
you could select one and get him to answer
the questions. For instance: At a recent
club meeting, w. w. Moore laid it down
as a thing settled that every farmer should
have a specially toward which all the farm
operations should tend, that bis was cattle
e.. ko~ IN IrDw fhof =" ny
Moore is full tf facts regarding the fatten-
ing of beef cattle which he has gathered in
nearly fifty years experience. What you
want to make the MIDLAND boom is to get
him and others to state some of these facts.
OF course some one will dispute his state
ments and the first thing you know they
will come with rush. You submit to w &.
w. M. list of queries such as you can
readily form. AS for ex. Have you found
by trial any advantage in mixing chaff with
meal, if SO does the further addition of hay
or fodder to the ration pay, &c. Then yon
have some dairymen like my friend Bald
erston, who are very practical men. Get
one of them to open out on the profit of high
feeding to begin with, Keilholtz on potato
culture, &c.
Had one winter, but now have spring
plows going and grass growing.
Hastily Your Friend,
IA. r.
Now friends. you have the good
suggestions made by your old neigh
Dor j. A. R. Will not w. w. M. give
his brother farmers the benefit of his
rich experience in the line suggested
by j. A. r. and also friend Balder
ston to whom we are under obligations
for past simi lar favors, but who has
a rich store of varied facts which
would be Of infinite value to farmers?
To impart this information to enrich
the knowledge of others who are in
sore need, will not make the dispen-
sers poorer. To use Bunyan's home
ly but expressive couplet
"There was a man the people thought him
mad
The more he gave away the more he had
Those who teach renew the pleas
ures of the understanding, and reap
fresh crop as it were, for them
selves, from the seeds of knowledge
they scatter to benefit others who
could tell US good deal about pota-
to raising, and hope Mr. KeilhoItZ
will draw them out as his far away
western friend suggests.
From second letter dated mo
22nd, by the same correspondent We
extract as follows.
At the time got your letter we were
making ready to SOW oats and did SOW on
the 23rd, OF Feb. The oats came up beau
tifully and have had no bad weather since,
on the 16 and II of March we,planted our
six acne lot of corn; thus You see we are
little earlier than the Cecil Co. farmers.
This is however the earliest season we have
had in Mo. The winter has been mild and
open, very little rain or snow. The mer-
curry however made a record of 230zero. Last